Re: [PATCH] git-status: colorize status output

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Aug 5, 2006, 19:51 UTC
Message-ID: <20060805195118.GB4836@sigio.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v64h7e7dm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 04:42:29AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Not that I can think of, but do people really run "git status"?

I do! :) I actually wrote the vim colorizer first and used it for a week before realizing it was not sufficient, and that I wanted git-status output colorized, too. So please consider including the patch.

> I think Jeff's follow-up "vim colorizer" makes a lot more sense
> than colorizing "git status" output -- it gives reminder during
> the last chance the user has to notice such problems, which is
> while composing the commit log message.

It looks like we have some similar emacs stuff in contrib/. Should I prepare a short patch to create contrib/vim/?

-Peff